Example sentences of "was only one [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Athens it was only one of many roles which a citizen could expect to have to play in the public life of the polis . |
| 2 | But this stress was only one of several strands in the ideological construction of the bourgeois family , for sexual choice was hemmed in by simultaneous emphases on property , the survival ( and even accentuation ) of a differentiated standard of morality , and the growth of the ideology of ‘ respectability ’ , with all its class connotations . |
| 3 | Omnipresence was only one of several attributes that tipped him over into the realm of the superhuman . |
| 4 | Lapis lazuli was only one of several varieties of semi-precious stones used by the Egyptian goldsmith to enrich his products . |
| 5 | The Federation was now compelled to change its ground and argue the National Union was only one of several organisations claiming to organise merchant seamen . |
| 6 | This was only one of several Masses that were to take place that day . |
| 7 | The report acknowledged that education performs many functions and the facilitation of economic growth was only one of these functions . |
| 8 | I started off qua , er quarter of an hour so half ha , it was only one of these things that goes over the top . |